Questions marked with "Bad quality" remain on the site, but yield no rep, neither to askers nor answerers (until fixed and conform to "How to ask" guidance or some other check-list).

Once a question is marked as "Bad quality", the asker will see a pinned message "This question does not meet all required criteria [here] (how to ask), please follow the checklist. Thanks"

This could solve several problems, for example:

Making reviews less ambiguous. A question either meets the criteria or it doesn't, no need to edit or close (but still an option to). Hopefully this will release some pressure from "Unclear what you're asking"/"Too broad"/"opinion based" close flag queue. (Many of those flags expire, or perhaps just mine)

although it won't affect the OP (as they don't care about rep most of the time only that the question get's answered) but the people that answer a lot of bad quality questions are just in it for the rep so it'd stop the answering and hopefully stop the OP from asking bad questions!

We would carefully balance the "criteria list", perhaps by using a selection of existing bad/good questions and making sure that they pass (or don't) appropriately. Possibly, some not-as-good-but-useful questions should still be allowed.

Edit: It was mentioned multiple times that bad questions occasionally have good and useful answers. In that case, we could autoremove the question flag if any answer receives enough upvotes. Or only award rep to answers above a threshold.

We have downvotes for bad quality already. Nobody makes you read downvoted questions.
– Robert LongsonNov 16 '17 at 8:21

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They still get answered, which encourages the behaviour.
– user5226582Nov 16 '17 at 8:22

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Nobody is preventing you from downvoting the answers either.
– Robert LongsonNov 16 '17 at 8:23

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That's not as effective. downvote + upvote is still a positive rep.
– user5226582Nov 16 '17 at 8:25

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Ahh you want your opinion that an answer is not useful to outweigh the opinions of others that it is.
– Robert LongsonNov 16 '17 at 8:27

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I didn't say that. But currently it's the other way around.
– user5226582Nov 16 '17 at 8:28

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You want a "Bad quality" flag that negates all upvotes. So yes, you are requesting that your opinion outweighs upvotes.
– CerbrusNov 16 '17 at 8:30

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It wouldn't be a single person flagging.
– user5226582Nov 16 '17 at 8:30

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Even if it took 5 flags, those 5 would outweigh 200 upvotes. My point is that you can't "disable" reputation gain from an answer, with flags. You could increase the rep loss from downvotes, but meh...
– CerbrusNov 16 '17 at 8:31

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This feature already exists. The machine preselects questions that are of questionable quality and puts them in the Triage queue. About half of all questions asked every day go into that queue. It seems to do a pretty good job of it, given that I rarely ever see anything worthwhile in that queue. What little is left over from that queue, combined with questions that get upvotes, is presented in the [new-nav] page. You have to opt-in explicitly to see that page, edit your profile. They are not doing a lot of bragging about it, it is pretty buggy and they gave up on making it better.
– Hans PassantNov 16 '17 at 8:55

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Assuming that the bad/good percentage is around 80/20 you would expect that downvotes/upvotes for each user to be in the same range. Somehow much less down votes are casted.
– reneNov 16 '17 at 9:00

- Reducing close vote queue (questions will become "low quality" instead), - Encouraging aksers to ask better questions, (by encouraging answerers not to encourage poor quality questions), - Get more askers to read help pages (by notifying them that the question does not meet the criteria, and if they want it answered they better tick off all the boxes they can).
– user5226582Nov 16 '17 at 10:21

There are a lot of options already exist to handle these things, which include:

Down-vote

Flag as Should be Closed...

Close Vote

Moderator Flag

Delete Vote

Similarly for answers, but often times it happens that a bad quality question yields a high quality answer. That helps OP and other users that come looking for a similar solution.

Questions marked with "Bad quality" remain on the site, but yield no rep, neither to askers nor answerers

This is a very bad idea, users that answer put some efforts into coming up with a solution, sometimes it is a lot of effort. And even if the rep gain is not a goal to answer a question it is still feels good when get some reputation from answering questions.
This way people will stop answering questions, while waiting to be sure that the question is not marked as Low Quality or something.

This way people will stop answering questions, while waiting to be sure that the question is not marked as Low Quality or something Most people will be able to tell straight away.
– user5226582Nov 16 '17 at 8:32

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@user5226582 But still there are alot of up and coming users, who are trying to make their way up by answering questions, and put a lot of efforts in their answers to make their answers stand out from others. Which might not be able to tell the questions quality as such.
– mega6382Nov 16 '17 at 8:36